Mention user_value in the load_config() docstring

Can be handy to check which symbols got set, like merge_config.py does.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kconfiglib.py b/kconfiglib.py
index 59869e3..f1a254d 100644
--- a/kconfiglib.py
+++ b/kconfiglib.py
@@ -686,6 +686,11 @@ class Kconfig(object):
         "# CONFIG_FOO is not set" within a .config file sets the user value of
         FOO to n. The C tools work the same way.
 
+        The Symbol.user_value attribute can be inspected afterwards to see what
+        value the symbol was assigned in the .config file (if any). The user
+        value might differ from Symbol.str/tri_value if there are unsatisfied
+        dependencies.
+
         filename:
           The file to load. Respects $srctree if set (see the class
           documentation).